Glad to hear it, mark! I'd rather it be that than just about anything else.
Thanks for catching.

Jim

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:49 PM vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@cox.net> wrote:

> Jim, you have the wrong tank, I can see that in your photo. You need the
> other waterboxer tank (1.9) 84-85. It would work with that new lower
> hose you thought was wrong. That new hose was actually right and didn't
> need the mod you made to it. It is shaped differently and that led you
> to try to orient it like the old hose was instead of the new way it was
> intended to go, with the new style diesel tank that we call the wbx 1.9
> tank. In the rest of the world that 84-85 tank was used in diesels from
> 83-92 and that is why the currently available lower hose is the right
> one after all. You just needed the right tank and the right orientation
> of the hose.
>
> Mark
>
> Jim Felder wrote:
> > The coolant is not coming in from the bottom. It is coming in from the
> top per several including list vendors who knew what I was doing. That's
> how it's done to convert over to the new style tank. Otherwise the hoses
> available these days don't stand a chance of fitting. I can see that that
> is a change that was made from before and now I'm having a problem. I
> don'tunderstand how it could be a problem, but it certainly is coincidental
> with the problem I'm having. So I'm interested in knowing more.
> >
> >> On Dec 10, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Make sure coolant is coming into the tank from the top fitting.
> >>> On Dec 10, 2015 2:00 PM, "Ralph Meyermann" <ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
>